Hákon Gunnarsson is an Icelandic writer who has done a little bit of everything with words, even though he originally intended to become a photographer. He has translated, written fiction, but also written about cinema, and literature. Over the years he has worked in various fields, he has stacked fish, sliced cheese, re-stacked papers, and watched paint dry, but his dogs will tell you that his main job is to walk them.

Piet's young adult novels, Dough Boy and Magic and Misery, have won critical acclaim from all the major industry publications. His plays have been produced in the 9th Annual New York City 15 Minute Play Festival, the Samuel French Short Play Festival, and SlamBoston!

G H Neale was born the same week as the death penalty was abolished in the United Kingdom – a matter of some good fortune.

Joseph Ferguson is an author, poet, and journalist appearing in a variety of small press, regional, and national publications. He wrote propaganda for a living for a variety of entities for some 25 years.

His books include three short story collections - Southbound, Shillelagh Law, and Tales Told by an Idiot; two poetry collections – Reflections of a Scurvy Bastard; and Destination Known; and a spoof of "how-to-get-a-job" books, Dave Doolittle's Resumes That Work, So You Don't Have To.

He is a former editor and critic for Hudson Valley, ran the Fiction Workshop for the Poughkeepsie Library District, and has reviewed books and videos for Climbing, The American Book Review, Kirkus, and a number of other publications.

He also sells rock climbing t-shirts through his website: http://www.bumluckhome.com/

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Multiple contests winner for short fiction,Mehreen Ahmed is an Australian novelist born in Bangladesh.Her historical fiction,The Pacifist,is a Drunken Druid's Editor's Choice.Gatherings,is nominated for the James Tait Black Prize for fiction.Her flash fiction have also been nominated for 3xbotN,Pushcart,Publication of the Month.They have been shortlisted, finalist, and have received honorable mention.Critically acclaimed by Midwest Book Review,DD Magazine,The Wild Atlantic Book Club to name a few, she is a juror to the KM Anthru Award,and a featured writer on Flash Fiction North and Connotation Press.Her works have been translated into German,Greek and Bangla.

Publications/Forthcoming

Routledge,Cambridge University Press (Cambridge Core),Hawaii University Press,Michigan State University Press,ISTE,Callej.org,Journal,Learner Autonomy Special Interest group (IATEFL, LASIG),Independence,University of Kent,The Sheaf, University of Saskatchewan Press. Minison Project: Shakespeara's Sonnet reimagined.Writer's Digest:Six sentences,Litro Magazine,Alien Buddha Press,The BeZine,Synchronised Chaos,Coin-Operated Press,Perception Magazine(Syracuse University),October Hill Magazine,The Antonym,Oddball Magazine,Noctivagant Press,The Atherton Review,KNOT Magazine,Olney/Kiss Your Darlings Magazine,Connotation Press,WordCity Literary Journal,The Talon Review(North Florida University),Quail Bell,The Literary Heist,The Hennepin Review,Five Minutes,Door is A Jar Magazine,Litterateur RW Magazine,Wink:Writers in the know Magazine,The Chamber Magazine,ELJ:Scissors and Spackle,Sequoyah Cherokee River Journal,Flash Boulevard,Ponder Savant,Phenomenal Literature,Crêpe & Penn,Flash Frontier,Ellipsis Zine,Ginosko#24,Literary Journal,BrownBag Online,The Cabinet of Heed,Shabd Aaweg Review,Peeking Cat Literary,Straylight Magazine(Wisconsin-Parkland University),Melbourne Culture Corner,Cogito Literary Journal,Breathe Everyone Magazine,Literati Magazine,Active Muse,Dreaming in Fiction,Anti-Heroin Chic,Mono,LoveinthetimeofCovidChronicle,Solstice Literary Magazine,Unpublished Platform,Wellington Street Review,Nailpolish Stories,Setu Bilingual,Impspired Magazine,Writers and Readers'Magazine,PIne Cone Review,KREAXXXION Review,Thorn Literary Magazine.3 Moon Magazine,Merak Magazine,Sage Cigarettes,The Bombay Review,FlashBack Fiction,Down in the Dirt, CC&D,Nymphs,Portand Metrozine,Academy of Heart and Mind,Creativity Webzine,Mojave Heart,The Piker Press,Kitaab,Nthanda,CommuterLit,Angel City Review,Paper Djinn,FreeFlashFiction,Cafe Dissensus,Adelaide Literary Magazine,Scarlet Leaf Review,Terror House Magazine,The Punch Magazine,ArcherLiterature,Furtive Dalliance,Flash Fiction North,Storyland Literary Review,Cosmic Teapot Publishing,Dark Myth Publications and more.

Contest Wins

Academy of the Heart and Mind, May Flower contest, 2022

Waterloo Festival, May 2020

Cabinet of Heed, Stream-of-consciouncess challenge, Drawer four, 2020

Adelaide Literary Magazine, Finalist, January, 2020

Unpublished Platform, Weaver of Words, Honourable Mention, 2022

AudioBooks

The Archer-Jingwei,February,2022

The Archer-Lost Languages and The International Mother Language Day, February, 2022

Pressfuls Digipress-The Moon and The Magic Divinity Vol 1,January, 2021

Oddball Magazine-Lungs, April, 2021

Immortal WorksThe Portrait, August, 2018

ListennotesThe Portrait, August 2018

Bewiservise-The Pizzazz, May 2020

Cosmic Teapot Publishing-The Pacifist, September, 2017

Boomers On Books-The Pacifist, Youtube,August,2021

SweetyCat Press-Rain and Coffee,Youtube, September, 2020

FlashBackFiction-East Bengal 1971,May,2020

Reedsy-Juliet's Song,Youtube, September, 2021

Flash Fiction Frontier-Blue, Grey and Lavender,Youtube,June,2020

Peeking Cat Literary-Chasing a Dream, Podbean, December, 2021

Ivoox: The Portrait, August, 2018

Talks

Radical Books and Politics with Maria Estrada Youtube 2021

Boomers on Books with Vince Stevenson YouTube 2021

Siren Radio with Steve Cawte University of Lincoln 2021

Breaking Rules Publishing with Trisha Mckee Podbean 2020

Mileva Anastasiadou is a neurologist living and working in Athens, Greece. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in many journals, such as Menacing Hedge, the Molotov Cocktail, Fear of Monkeys, Infective Ink, Ofi press, Maudlin House and many others. She has published two books in Greek and a chapbook in English (Once Upon a Dystopia) by Cosmic Teapot Publishing.

www.facebook.com/milevaanastasiadou/

Dylan Callens is a writer and educator living in Sudbury, Ontario.

To find out more about Dylan, visit www.cosmicteapot.net.

Brena Mercer has a BA in Literature from the University of California at Santa Barbara and currently lives in Tucson, Arizona. She has also studied Chapbook/Poetry writing at the University of Arizona in Tucson. In addition she has two other college degrees that helped her find a job and live a middle class life. She taught Developmental English for several years and therefore knows how to use commas, but she is still struggling with semi-colons.

Born on an ancient abandoned meth lab in Utica, NY, Meaghan Curley has been writing ever since and has no plans on stopping.